Mercy

Mary Blackwell had grown accustomed to being second best. For two years, she'd watched as her place in her husband's affections was slowly usurped by the Interlopers he'd purchased from Judgment, the most feared disciplinary establishment in the world--where women are taken and ruthlessly trained to be slaves to those few men strong enough and wealthy enough to buy them. But when Richard Blackwell unexpectedly dies and the Mountain Lord returns to reclaim his property, for the first time Mary can see what she longs to be. She offers herself up to the ruthless masters of Judgment and, through her submission, discovers a new capacity for pain and sensuality.